Key Manchester City duo absent from training ahead of Brighton & Hove Albion clash
Two key Manchester City players were absent from first-team training ahead of Thursday's Premier League trip to Brighton & Hove Albion.
The Citizens bounced back from their Champions League exit on penalties to Real Madrid by beating Chelsea 1-0 on Saturday to progress to their second successive FA Cup final, courtesy of a late goal from Bernardo Silva.
Pep Guardiola's men have put together a club-record 29-game unbeaten run in all competitions and remain on course to end the campaign with the same domestic double they won last season.
A Manchester derby FA Cup final awaits Man City on May 25, but they are now focused fully on the Premier League title race, with just one point separating the Citizens in third from second-placed Liverpool and leaders Arsenal, at the time of writing, with six games left to play.
Man City will pay a visit to European hopefuls Brighton on Thursday, but Guardiola is sweating over the fitness of two of his key players ahead of the contest at the American Express Stadium.
Erling Haaland, Phil Foden absent from Man City trainingMan City took part in an open training session at City Football Academy on Tuesday morning, but both Erling Haaland and Phil Foden were not pictured out on the grass with their teammates.
Haaland was a notable absentee from the Citizens side that edged past Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-finals last weekend after he failed to recover in time from a niggling muscle injury.
The Norwegian picked up his problem in City's Champions League clash with Real Madrid last weekend and Guardiola stated that the striker asked to be taken off before the Citizens lost on penalties.
Haaland has scored 31 goals in 39 games for Man City across all competitions so far this season, as well as
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